Afghanistan burns five tonnes of drugs,alcohol in single blaze

Afghan authorities today burned around five tonnes of heroin, hashish, drug-making chemicals and alcohol in a show of their commitment to curbing drug trafficking.
Piles of drugs as well as some 100 bottles of alcohol were set alight outside the western city of Herat, seen as of the three main transit routes for narcotics out of Afghanistan.
"This demonstrates our commitment against drug trafficking. We are determined to prevent drug trafficking by all means possible," Herat police chief Ayoub Ansari told reporters.
One tonne of heroin, sold gram by gram, is worth 40 million euros (USD 44 million) when it reaches European markets, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
There are conflicting accounts of how Afghanistan's war on drugs is going.
Officials stress their efforts in the fight against opium production and trafficking but the country last year produced more than 80 per cent of the world's opium.
In addition to channelling hundreds of million of ...Afghan authorities today burned around five tonnes of heroin, hashish, drug-making chemicals and alcohol in a show of their commitment to curbing drug trafficking.

Piles of drugs as well as some 100 bottles of alcohol were set alight outside the western city of Herat, seen as of the three main transit routes for narcotics out of Afghanistan.